UP’s race to nowhere

First published in Deccan Herald

Much has been claimed about UP’s development. It is the singular pitch of the current dispensation’s estimated Rs 50-crore-per-day advertising campaign promising to make UP a $1 trillion economy, parroted from PM Modi’s presentation to BRICS in 2019 about making India a $5 trillion economy by 2024, with UP driving that growth. What’s the reality?

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